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It is not customary to love what one has

Anatole France

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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Change Death Life Ourselves Sadness
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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Deep Forever Life Mortal
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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Book Library Myself People
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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Desire Forever Man Past Regret Young
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
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Discover Kind Truth
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Himself Kind Man

It is not customary to love what one has

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